References: History & stories

Below, find references to articles, books, websites, talks, and more categorized as “History & stories”. See also: all references.

• When sans-serifs became neo-grotesques
• Modernism meets typography
• ‘Where’s the fame? Where’s the glory?’
• ‘All Jobs needed was software that would tie his hardware together’
• ‘Choose a face whose historical echoes and associations are in harmony with the text’
• “I had always viewed writing and art as two separate things”
• “Stanley filled the screen with my lettering”
• “Sign painters shade their letters to the lower left by default”
• “The real problem was that they used type at all”
• OCR-A and OCR-B from Adobe Type
• Lust from Positype
• Pairing typefaces with history in mind
• Nimbus Sans, URW++ join Typekit
• Estilo from DSType
• Coming to your desktop: fonts from URW++
• “Adobe’s first retail product, back in 1985, was type”
• “A real web designer’s type designer”
• Franklin Gothic’s working class roots